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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "Silvia Casellas" <info@sailab.es>
Reply-To: amsoulsbyuk@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 03:23:22 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: $1,200,000.00 notification,contact for details..





Hello sir,


RE: US$1,200,000.00 Winning Notification.



This is to officially notify you, that this your email address with
reference number “UNS1025387508LZ “ have been selected by the board of
trustees of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO) as one of the winners of online lottery programme
held last week Friday in the United Kingdom.

Consequently, you have been awarded a lump sum payment of US$1,200,000.00.
This is from total prize money of US$12,000,000.00 shared among 10
international winners of the online lottery programme.

This year online lottery programme was held to promote global educational,
business and cultural developments with special emphasis to disadvantaged
populations and private individuals worldwide.

All the participants of this year online lottery programme were selected
through computer balloting system drawn from over 850,000 private
individuals emails from Australia, New Zealand, Africa, Europe, North
America, South America, Middle East and Asia as part of the annual global
development support program

To immediately receive your won US$1,200,000.00 prize money, kindly
contact directly our online payment Coordinator in the United Kingdom:


Mrs. Anne-Marie Soulsby
Online Payment Coordinator
No.3B Whitehall Crt, London SW1A 2EL,United Kingdom
Telephone: +447017043102 Ext 12.
E-mail: amsoulsby@terrapins.com



All your correspondences to our online payment Coordinator, Mrs.
Anne-Marie Soulsby should have this reference number: “UNS1025387508LZ”
sent along with your Contact Address and Telephone number for prompt
attention.


Once again congratulations!

Yours faithfully,

Silvia Casellas
Online Notification Dpt., UNESCO.
Palais des Nations, Av. de la Paix 8-14,1211 Geneva 10,Switzerland.


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